Mexican senators have heard testimony that “we are not alone” in the universe and been presented with the alleged remains of “non-human” mummies, in the country’s first official event on extraterrestrial life.
At a senate hearing on Tuesday, lawmakers were shown two shriveled bodies with shrunken heads – alongside video footage of “unexplained anomalous phenomena” – by Jaime Maussan, a sports journalist turned UFO enthusiast.
Maussan said the remains were more than 1,000 years old and belonged to “non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution”.
“It’s the queen of all evidence,” Maussan claimed. “That is, if the DNA is showing us that they are non-human beings and that there is nothing that looks like this in the world, we should take it as such.”
Other studies have suggested the mummies, which were found in Nazca, Peru, in 2017, are fraudulent.
Tuesday’s hearing was organised by Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, a lawmaker from the governing Morena party and aspiring governor of the state of Veracruz.
It included participants from around the world who made calls for transparency and international cooperation. Maussan suggested that Mexico could become the first country in the world to accept the presence of aliens on the planet.
Gutiérrez Luna said that Congress had not taken a position on the theories put forward during the hearing but stressed the important of listening to “all voices, all opinions”.
The event was inspired by the US congressional hearing on the same topic in July, in which the retired major David Grusch alleged that the US was hiding a program to retrieve and reverse engineer UFOs. The Pentagon has denied his claims.
In media interviews, Grusch has made even more outlandish claims that the US government has in its possession the bodies of “dead pilots” and a flying saucer found in Italy by Mussolini almost 100 years ago.
Nonetheless the congressional hearing was a sign of the increased respectability of a field once seen as the reserve of conspiracy theorists.
Well-known politicians, such as the Republican senator Marco Rubio, have pushed for more disclosure, and in 2022 Barack Obama told CBS that the government had “footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory”.
